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sarreph

4,026karma·903submissions·July 21, 2013
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I make software, images (sometimes moving), and music.

Today, my focus is on personalizing the internet at Kenobi.ai (YC W22)

Reach me at my name (Rory) and my company’s domain.

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We think that in commercial buying there will still be a place for “discovery”, where B2B visitors gain from being able to independently digest public facing materials themselves. And that this will m…
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We don’t yet, but if you’d like to email me on rory@kenobi.ai I will let you know when we start. Appreciate the words!
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Aah! Thanks for reporting! We’ve seen that in a couple of cases. Feel free to reach out to product@kenobi.ai with the site you’re using and we’ll look into it for you.
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So right now (what we’re demoing), we do “on demand” personalisation, so there isn’t an SEO angle there really. However, we started with pre-rendering changes onto hardcoded URLs and while that did af…
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Thank you. Accessibility came up in another comment and to be honest we've only thought in terms of _preserving_ accessibility so far, not _improving_ it (as you're suggesting) -- would love…
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> if the buyer enters their company and the copy just changes into what we think they want, are they going to lose trust that the copy is a true representation of our focus? Great point. That'…
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Thank you! > many people with a business profile that would certainly click a "just show me what I care about" button You've encapsulated better than I did the kind of visitor segmen…
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Appreciate the candid feedback! The number one request we have is to integrate deanonymisation, so you’re right on the money there. That’s coming in the next couple of weeks or so… Wrt the changes bei…
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In general the case that we’re building for here is the one where we are able to do two things effectively: “streamlining” content, so that instead of 7 different use-cases on a maze of a brochure sit…
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Thank you for flagging! Are you able to share the input you tried so we can diagnose it for you? Failed requests that are coming in (people are trying some wild inputs!!) we are keeping an eye on and …
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Felix handles our personalisation pipeline so will let him chime-in. We do some fast-scraping (cached where possible) to understand the host site, and pull in as much extra page data as possible. We a…
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> You could show some images of what you mean by the product personalization This is a great point, we've heard this elsewhere so I will be adding a section to our site for this. Thanks!
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Thank you yes, we perhaps should have made that a little clearer in the post body :')
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Fair criticism! We actually got funded for a different idea (this was a pivot) so perhaps you're onto something.... Jokes aside -- and to address your points.... Privacy: Visitors currently opt-i…
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Kenobi / https://kenobi.ai I’m working on a way to personalize the content of your website to any visitor - with minimal setup (it’s just a script tag). We’ve just launched so if anyo…
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We’re working on something adjacent to this[0] by making fluid UIs for public (marketing landing content) front ends. AI allows even compiled code to be arbitrarily modified on the fly, and it’s only …
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> I now project that there will be zero videos on the homescreen around May of 2026 now This is already true. If you sign out of YouTube or turn your "Watch History" off you see zero vide…
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Looks to be available in Vertex. I reckon it's an API key thing... you can more explicitly select a "paid API key" in AI Studio now.
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Good for you! Inspiring stories like yours are positive externalities that will no longer be extant in the same way when everyone’s minds are just thin clients on top of LLMs!
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> but it's very rude and a no-no in Japanese culture What, specifically, about that phrasing is "very rude" and a "no-no" in Japanese culture? I am genuinely curious.
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V1 felt polished to a degree that implied the developers had thought a lot about how their product should provide a compelling user experience. It was also very performant and rarely crashed. V2 was b…
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After the V2 suite was released a few years ago, I realised I would never get the "old" Affinity product experience back -- the same experience and price-point that made me a great and produ…
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I've been thinking a lot recently about how much we'd be able to model the human existence as a foundation model (or multiple models representing each core part of the brain) hooked up to …
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The point is that it's noise and you can't "capture" a still image of the text / information (relies on motion to be viewable).
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Can't help but think if the author of that PR had been less defeatist and snarky they would have had a chance at decent discussion about it being a viable option (with AI).
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The (presumably fully human) author is listed in the byline at the top of the article. What is sadly rather ironic is the author's first name, "Al" looks like AI when stylised in the …
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The dichotomy being presented here is great, and I appreciate the tact in presenting each side's strengths -- a tasteful and enjoyable read. It _is_ possible after all to exist on either branch o…
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